Friday, August 12, 2005, 2:25:19 PM, Lex de Haan (lex.de.haan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: LdH> SQL/PSM is *not* part of core SQL -- and I personally think the Oracle LdH> proprietary PL/SQL language is much better and more efficient; Oracle is never LdH> going to implement SQL/PSM. Was SQL/PSM even around when Oracle came up with PL/SQL? I'm not intimately familiar with the timing, but I've always thought that PL/SQL came first and then the standards body went in another direction, which is the sort of thing that I'm sure happens a lot. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l